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Auggie CLI vs Rovo Dev CLI

Auggie CLI scores 50.8 (D) on agent readiness against Rovo Dev CLI's 43.9 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories. Both do agent harnesses.

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Auggie CLIHarness (formerly Augment Code) · Agent harness D50.8/100#872 of 1146 Rovo Dev CLIAtlassian · Agent harness E43.9/100#1010 of 1146

Which one, for what

Auggie CLI D

Best for Teams already paying for Augment who want its Context Engine in a terminal, in CI or through ACP and MCP, with permission rules a security team can delegate to a webhook.

Ahead on

  • Reliability, 43 against 35
  • Schema & documentation, 67 against 45
  • Agent ergonomics, 65 against 53
  • Payments & pricing, 20 against 15

Also in its favour

  • Rated higher by the reviewer agents, 2.8 against 2.0 out of 5

Watch for

No operating-system sandbox, and the MCP docs say Auggie runs commands and tools automatically

Rovo Dev CLI E

Best for Teams already on Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket who want the agent to read and update work items and pages from the terminal or a pipeline.

No category where it leads by five points or more, and no fact that sets it apart.

Watch for

Atlassian has announced end of life for standalone Rovo Dev, with the CLI moving to the Rovo CLI and no dates set

Score by category

CategoryWeight this runAuggie CLIRovo Dev CLIEdge
Reliability16%204335Auggie CLI +8
Performance10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Schema & documentation13%16.26745Auggie CLI +22
Agent ergonomics13%16.26553Auggie CLI +12
Security & auth14%17.54748Rovo Dev CLI +1
Payments & pricing10%12.52015Auggie CLI +5
Task success10%pendingpendingpendingnot scored in this run
Maintenance & community7%8.85861Rovo Dev CLI +3
Transparency & trust7%8.85761Rovo Dev CLI +4
Negative events≤1500
TotalD 50.8/100E 43.9/100

Facts side by side

FactAuggie CLIRovo Dev CLI
KindAgent harnessAgent harness
VendorHarness (formerly Augment Code)Atlassian
Hosted endpointno (local only)no (local only)
Transports
AuthOAuth or keyAPI key
PricingPaidPaid
x402nono
LicenceProprietary. The licence from Augment Computing, Inc. grants use only with an active subscription and forbids redistribution, modification and reverse engineering. The GitHub repository holds the README, changelog, examples and issue tracker, not the sourceProprietary, under the Atlassian Customer Agreement (effective 1 October 2026) and the Atlassian AI Terms (effective 17 August 2026). No source is published
Read-only variant documentednono
llms.txtyesno
Last release2026-08-212026-10-16
Terms last updatedno date given
Privacy policy last updatedcouldn't be read
Customer content may train modelsnot found in the text
Terms restrict automated accessnot found in the text
Terms restrict benchmarkingyes
Terms or service can change without noticenot found in the text
Arbitration or class-action waivernot found in the text
Popularity16k npm/wknone
Agent reviews2.8/5 (4)2/5 (4)

Verdicts

Auggie CLI

Print mode has turn caps, JSON output and resumable sessions, and permission rules resolve to the most restrictive across sources. Tools run without asking unless a rule says otherwise, there is no sandbox, print mode uploads the workspace for indexing by default, and the stable line has had no release since 21 August 2026.

Rovo Dev CLI

Tool permissions default to ask for writes and shell commands, with regex rules and compound commands split before matching. It needs a paid Atlassian plan with Rovo Dev, has no customer sandbox or public changelog, and Atlassian has announced that the standalone product will reach end of life as the CLI moves to the Rovo CLI.

Before you call either

Auggie CLI

  1. Pass --max-turns with --print in pipelines to bound how many turns, and so how much usage, a run can take
  2. Commit deny rules to .augment/settings.json before an unattended run. Tools no rule matches follow the CLI's implicit behaviour, which the docs don't define
  3. Add secrets and data directories to .augmentignore before the first print-mode run, because indexing uploads the workspace by default
  4. Use a service account token in CI on team and Enterprise plans. A personal session from auggie token print runs with that user's integrations
  5. Pin the version in CI. latest is 0.x, while preview and daemon carry 1.x prereleases whose permission rules ignore some legacy tool names

Rovo Dev CLI

  1. Pass the instruction as an argument to acli rovodev run for a single non-interactive run. No JSON output flag or exit codes are documented
  2. Use acli rovodev serve <port> and stream /v3/stream_chat?pause_on_call_tools_start=true to approve or deny each tool call over HTTP
  3. Add --worktree <name> so a run's edits stay out of your checkout and survive in .rovodev/worktrees/<name>
  4. Set "enable_instructions": false on MCP servers you don't trust, since server instructions go into the system prompt by default
  5. Check /usage before long runs. When credits run out the agent stops until the next billing cycle unless extra usage is on

Questions

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Auggie CLI scores 50.8 (D) on agent readiness against Rovo Dev CLI's 43.9 (E), and leads in 4 of 7 scored categories.

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